Neptune's Physical Appearance The color of Neptune is a blue-green color. Its atmosphere is made of hydrogen, helium, methane, and ammonia. The methane in the atmosphere makes its blue color. The core of Neptune is made up of liquid rock and ice, thining from the core, comes an ocean and its many storms, thining out into an atmosphere. The atmosphere is also full of swirling clouds and storms, including the famous Great Dark Spot.
Diagram of Neptune's Layers
The Great Dark Spot
Some people think the Great Dark Spot of Neptune is a storm, others think it is a hole in Neptune's Atmosphere layer of methane. The Great Dark Spot was discovered by the Voyager in 1989, than disappeared in 1994, than reappeared soon after. Instead of reappearing in the South where the spot originally was, it reappeared in the North. The cause of the spot moving to the North was probably when Neptune rotates, the spot moves the opposite direction Neptune spins.
Neptune's Great Dark Spot
Neptune's Moons
Neptune has 13 different moons, which are; Naiad, Tha Lassa, Despina, Galatea, Larissa, Proteus, Triton, Nereid, Hailmede, Sao, Laomedeia, Psamathe, and Neso. The biggest and most known of Neptune'smoons is Triton. Triton has a retrograde motion orbit around Neptune. Before the Voyager left our solar systems it sent pictures of Nitrogen geysers on the surface of Triton.
Close up view of one of Neptune's moon's Triton
Quick Facts of Neptune → Neptune was named after the Roman God of Sea, Neres
→ Neptune's axial tilt is 28.32º
→ Neptune was discovered September 23, 1846
→ Johann Gottfried discovered Neptune
→ The average temperature on Neptune is -200°C
→ The length of one day on Neptune is 16.11 hours → Neptune's mass is 102.43
→ Neptune's moon Triton is the only moon that orbits Neptune that orbits opposite of planets rotation
→ Neptune has 6 different rings
→ Neptune is 51.7 times Earth's volume
→ The Voyager 2 discovered Triton and Nereid and yeilded 6 other moons
→ The other 5 moon's were discovered in telescopic surveys in 2002
→ Winds on Neptune can reach up to 240 mph.
Neptune
Neptune's Physical Appearance
The color of Neptune is a blue-green color. Its atmosphere is made of hydrogen, helium, methane, and ammonia. The methane in the atmosphere makes its blue color. The core of Neptune is made up of liquid rock and ice, thining from the core, comes an ocean and its many storms, thining out into an atmosphere. The atmosphere is also full of swirling clouds and storms, including the famous Great Dark Spot.
The Great Dark Spot
Some people think the Great Dark Spot of Neptune is a storm, others think it is a hole in Neptune's Atmosphere layer of methane. The Great Dark Spot was discovered by the Voyager in 1989, than disappeared in 1994, than reappeared soon after. Instead of reappearing in the South where the spot originally was, it reappeared in the North. The cause of the spot moving to the North was probably when Neptune rotates, the spot moves the opposite direction Neptune spins.
Neptune has 13 different moons, which are; Naiad, Tha Lassa, Despina, Galatea, Larissa, Proteus, Triton, Nereid, Hailmede, Sao, Laomedeia, Psamathe, and Neso. The biggest and most known of Neptune'smoons is Triton. Triton has a retrograde motion orbit around Neptune. Before the Voyager left our solar systems it sent pictures of Nitrogen geysers on the surface of Triton.
Quick Facts of Neptune
→ Neptune was named after the Roman God of Sea, Neres
→ Neptune's axial tilt is 28.32º
→ Neptune was discovered September 23, 1846
→ Johann Gottfried discovered Neptune
→ The average temperature on Neptune is -200°C
→ The length of one day on Neptune is 16.11 hours → Neptune's mass is 102.43
→ Neptune's moon Triton is the only moon that orbits Neptune that orbits opposite of planets rotation
→ Neptune has 6 different rings
→ Neptune is 51.7 times Earth's volume
→ The Voyager 2 discovered Triton and Nereid and yeilded 6 other moons
→ The other 5 moon's were discovered in telescopic surveys in 2002
→ Winds on Neptune can reach up to 240 mph.
Bibliography
http://www.burro.astr.cwru.edu/stu/neptune.html
http://www.planetary.org/explore/ topics/our_solar_system/neptune/moons.html